Worst flooding since 1955 hits China, 2 million suffer

Chinese students make their way across a flooded school compound walking along a row of chairs, in Wuhan, China. More than one million people in China have been evacuated following downpours that have raised water levels in rivers to critical highs, and triggered floods and landslides. Summer rains have left at least 168 people dead or missing so far, and weather authorities warned that flood-hit areas across the southern half of China would experience a fresh round of heavy rainfall.

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A pedestrian uses umbrella to stop the water splashed by a bus in a flooded street after heavy rainfall on June 18, in Wuhan, Hubei Province of China. A heavy rainstorm hit Wuhan on Saturday, causing flooding across the region.

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A driver wades through floodwater after his bus was stranded in a flooded tunnel in Wuhan, Hubei province June 18.